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Webster 1913 Edition

Rubbage

Rub′bage

(?; 48)

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Noun.

Rubbish.

[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Rubbage

RUBBAGE

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Definition 2024

rubbage

rubbage

English

Noun

rubbage ‎(countable and uncountable, plural rubbages)

(now dialectal) Alternative form of rubbish
- 1959, Peter Samson, AN ABRIDGED DICTIONARY of the TMRC LANGUAGE June 1959 (with 2005 commentary):
  
  CRUFT: that which magically amounds in the Clubroom just before you walk in to clean up. In other words, rubbage.
  
  [2005 commentary]: … Rubbage is a rare term for rubbish, but I had heard it used growing up in New England.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 209:
  I didn't want him to buy any more rubbage.